That sounds to me like an over-accommodation of a traditional, normal process in order to accommodate a protesting group. That sounds abnormal to me.

And what is taking so long?

With regard to the pilot office program, we were expecting a report on how that is going with regard to streamlining permitting approvals.

A little bit off the oil and gas topic. Both your State and mine have overpopulations of wild horses.

Was the information made available to you earlier that there may be protests?

I want to start by visiting about the coal lease sale moratorium.

Okay, well, we will do that and we'll ask the staff of this subcommittee to follow up with you in hopes that we can better understand as we prepare our request to the interior environment approps committee that we understand the allocation…

Very good. Thank you.

As in several months.

We are also trying to talk vocally about the actual cost of the program.

So are you required to make those bidding sessions public?

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A huge portion of the energy in this country comes from these areas managed by the Department of the Interior.

Attacking this budget request, without producing an alternative, requires almost no work at all, and even less courage.

the policies of this Administration are absolutely geared toward killing coal, limiting oil and gas production on Federal lands, and diminishing the revenues available from those lands, which hurts my state more than any other state.